You're in an exam room, and time is of the essence. You're making every effort to recall a researched response, but your mind keeps playing the tune of an old song. Have you ever experienced this?
The human brain is not always simple. Although it has great potential, how do you make it work in your favour, particularly during an exam? Fortunately, there are a variety of memorising strategies to assist your mind in producing the appropriate response when it's needed.
Every pupil learns differently because every brain is different. Finding out your learning style will help you choose the best memorization methods while you're in class.
Techniques for Verbal Memorization
1. Mnemonic
Mnemonics are words, rhymes, or sentences that help you remember things. A common technique is to use acronyms, where each letter of a word stands for a separate sentence. For instance, VIBGYOR is used to recall the rainbow's hues. Making memorable words is another way to remember things: King Henry Died In the metric system, drinking chocolate milk is equivalent to kilo, hecto, deka, deci, centi, and milli.
2. Dispersed Repetition
For the majority of students, repetition or "rote learning" is boring and ineffective. Information must be encoded and stored in your brain over time. So instead, attempt spaced-out repetition. If you only pick up one new idea today, go over it once more in a day, a week, and a month.
3.Chunking
Chunking is a method of arranging things together to make them simpler to recall. Each individual "chunk" of data contains data with shared traits or patterns. It's a good idea to limit chunks to no more than seven things.
Here is an illustration:
Attempt to recall these letters:
F K N E H Z Y X M B I CB At A
Difficult? Consider grouping them into threes:
IBM, KFC, XYZ, and ABC
4. Music or rhymes
This approach might be ideal for you if you're someone who can't stop humming and singing along to every song on the playlist. Because nursery rhymes are short and to the point, we can still recall them after all these years. To recall a formula or a property, try coming up with your own rhyme or lyrics. For instance, the rhyme "Red and black, safe for Jack" is used to distinguish between poisonous and non-venomous snake colours. Kills a man in red and yellow.
